He appointed commissioners to meet these delegates, and on the 28th of October, lf>C>4, it was agreed that the line should start on the Sound at a point twenty miles east of the Hudson River and pursue a north-northwest coarse until it intersected the line of Massachusetts, which at that time was supposed to ran across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. In locating the twenty-mile starting point, Nicolls accepted representations made by the Connecticut people, and it was fixed at the mouth of the Maniaroneck Eiver, which in point of fact, however, is only ten miles from the Hudson. Accordingly, the boundary between New York and Connecticut was declared to be " a line drawn from the east point or side where the fresh water falls into the salt,1 at high-water mark, north-northwest to the line of Massachusetts." This produced a line striking the east bank of the Hudson just above Croton Point, and the west bank at West Point -- an arrangement which, when the New York authorities discovered the fact, was greatly to their dissatisfaction, and which later was rectified on a basis as nearly as convenient adjustable to the original twenty-mile understanding. But for the time being, notwithstanding the serious miscalculation of distance, the division of territory on the Sound appeared equitable enough. It was unquestionable that everything east of Greenwich belonged to Connecticut, by virtue of long settlement and also of the articles of 1 (;:»(}. West of Greenwich there were only three settlements on the Sound-- those at Rye and Westchester, and an infant colony at Eastdies) er -- and all of these had been established exclusively by Connecticut people. Westchester village, and with it all the territory on the Sound as far as the Maniaroneck River, was surrendered by Connecticut to New York, only the Rye purchase being retained.